Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 9

Document Links:

Document 9.1 Auction in Chatham Square (1820)

Document 9.2 JAMES FLINT, Account of the Panic (1820)

Document 9.3 VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, Antitariff Petition (1820)

Document 9.4 JAMES KENT, Arguments against Expanding Male Voting Rights (1821)

Document 9.5 NATHAN SANFORD, Arguments for Expanding Male Voting Rights (1821)

Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 9

The following exercises provide an opportunity to use the sources collectively to respond to a guiding question.

Guiding Question: How did the devastation caused by the panic of 1819 affect Americans’ thinking about both economic policies and political rights?

Instructions

Below are three topics that might find a place in organizing an essay responding to the guiding question. This exercise asks you to identify which sources would provide relevant evidence for that topic. Select the best answers for each question. Choose ALL that apply. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 9.16

1. Which of the sources provide specific evidence about the effects of the panic of 1819 on both individual Americans and the nation’s economy? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 9.1: Auction in Chatham Square
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 9.2: James Flint, Account of the Panic
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 9.3: Virginia Agricultural Society, Antitariff Petition
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 9.4: James Kent, Arguments against Expanding Male Voting Rights
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 9.5: Nathan Sanford, Arguments for Expanding Male Voting Rights
Correct: Document 9.1: This image suggests that the panic led to many evictions and sales of used furniture at auction. Document 9.2: Flint describes the panic’s effects on the agricultural sector and on laborers and mechanics.
Incorrect: Document 9.3: The petition documents Virginia planters’ and farmers’ resistance to an increase in the nation’s tariff. Document 9.4: Kent argues that universal male suffrage will have a negative impact on private property. Document 9.5: Sanford argues in favor of the expansion of male voting rights.

Question 9.17

2. Which of these documents provide specific evidence about the way the panic of 1819 might have affected Americans’ thinking about their place in the nation’s economic system? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 9.1: Auction in Chatham Square
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 9.2: James Flint, Account of the Panic
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 9.3: Virginia Agricultural Society, Antitariff Petition
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 9.4: James Kent, Arguments against Expanding Male Voting Rights
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 9.5: Nathan Sanford, Arguments for Expanding Male Voting Rights
Correct: Document 9.3: The petition suggests that the panic might have influenced Virginia farmers and planters to change their perspective on the use and function of the tariff and its impact on their sector of the economy.
Incorrect: Document 9.1: The image does not indicate that the panic might have changed Americans’ thinking about their place in the nation’s economy. Document 9.2: Flint’s account of the panic does not indicate that the panic might have changed Americans’ thinking about their place in the nation’s economy. Document 9.4: Kent makes an argument about suffrage and private property. Document 9.5: Sanford argues in favor of expanding male voting rights.

Question 9.18

3. Which of the following documents provide specific evidence about the ways the panic of 1819 influenced Americans’ thinking about political rights in the United States? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 9.1: Auction in Chatham Square
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 9.2: James Flint, Account of the Panic
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 9.3: Virginia Agricultural Society, Antitariff Petition
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 9.4: James Kent, Arguments against Expanding Male Voting Rights
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 9.5: Nathan Sanford, Arguments for Expanding Male Voting Rights
Correct: Document 9.4: James Kent’s arguments against expanded suffrage suggest that the panic had led him to fear the power of non-elites and the potential results of giving them greater political influence. Document 9.5: Sanford’s arguments in favor of expanding suffrage suggest that the panic’s impact on non-elites led him to believe they should have greater political power.
Incorrect: Document 9.1: The image does not indicate that Americans’ thinking about political rights changed as a result of the panic. Document 9.2: Flint’s account of the panic does not indicate the panic changed his or his subjects’ thinking about political rights. Document 9.3: The petition does not show that the panic influenced the Virginians’ thinking about political rights.

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